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All the ideas for 'Theory of Knowledge (2nd edn)', '14: Superstition' and 'Rationality and Virtue'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

2945	Most philosophers start with reality and then examine knowledge; Descartes put the study of knowledge first [Lehrer]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

2946	You cannot demand an analysis of a concept without knowing the purpose of the analysis [Lehrer]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

22480

Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

22477

Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue

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The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

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Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

5957	Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch]